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Hi,
I have see same before but the reasone was for daily backup required 2 tapes and in between you have to change the tape if you didnt change the tape within 2 hours after pressing yes i mean when you accecpt changing tape you will get the error and message "The media operation was terminated by the user"

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HattonsAuthor Commented: 2007-04-05

The backup is only writing 35Gb to the tape when its a 35-70Gb tape and I have already backup up over 48Gb to the same tape a week previousley

Lol its true they do oversell the backup capacities on these things. In fact I have found that the problem was fixed when I realised that SP2 for Windows Server 2003 was failing at the same time and restarting the server. The error reported had NO I repeat No connection to the real problem "Thanks" Symantec you guys Suck!!!

But anyway I am getting over 40Gb on all my 35-70Gb drives so maybe Ime lucky

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richiveyCommented: 2007-10-17

This happened to me on several servers on the same night. I had scheduled reboots of all servers for well after the backups should have completed. The servers that got this error message did not have tapes loaded, and had been displaying the message "Please insert an overwriteable tape" prior to the reboot. The reboot killed BackupExec, along with the active job. After the restart, BackupExec killed the job with this error message.

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ImageTechDevCommented: 2008-03-27

So no real solution then... I have the same issue but nothing to do with tapes...

Also a 35 -70 GB tape should worst case scenario get at least 35GB on it as that's assuming no compression, the 70GB for a 2:1 compression ratio.
I tend to get about 1.4:1 ratio which gets around 50GB on a tape, but it depends what you're backing up... Word docs compress better than stuff like .dwg CAD drawings so you'll get more data on a tape if its predominantly .doc rather than .dwg files.

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dilesCommented: 2012-01-04

I've seen this before where it's actaully the backup exec remote service on a 2nd server causing the issue and restaring that resolves the issue as there is a connection error between the servers.

I also have this error message but only when I try to run an inventory, the inventory job will sit as "Queued" but the timer will run as if the job is running, try to cancel the job and it will sit as "Cancelling" for up to and some times over an hour before failing with this error number.

Either that or I have to reboot the server or is it's being nice it will allow me to stop and restart the backup exec services.